Flea Markets: Europe’s Best Summer Destinations 2014

Intro

Summer is now around the corner: soon, we’ll be able to enjoy again from longer hours of daylight, outdoor dinners or concerts in the warm evenings, fireflies and all the fun the season has to give. However, there is more than these “simple” pleasures out there!

For instance, Summer is perfect for flea markets! Getting up early while the day is still cool enough, to try your luck at finding a hidden gem, is a great way to start the day.

And since Summer rhymes with “beach“, “road trips” and “picturesque destinations”, what could be better than combining “flea markets” with an overseas trip? With hundreds of potentially stunning destinations around the world, the question is “where should you go?”. Well, if you had Europe in mind, there are a few flea-market-friendly countries out there, worth a visit.

As a matter of facts, 20 European cities competed for the prestigious title of Best European Destination 2014. After a three weeks’ period of online voting, Porto was elected the Best European Destination 2014 by hundreds of major tourism offices in Europe and thousands of community managers of social networks and voters, and won the title ahead of 19 big European cities!

Zagreb, Vienna, Nicosia, Budapest, Madeira Islands, Milan, Madrid, Berlin and Rome are the next best destinations for a holiday or city-trip in 2014. Here is the list of the top 10 European destinations of 2014 and their flea markets!

Source: europeanbestdestinations.org

Flea Markets: Europe’s Best Summer Destinations 2014 was last modified: August 19th, 2016 by Ashley Miller

A true dyed-in-the-wool flea market hunter, Ashley has never been afraid to dig her hands into old dusty boxes full of spider webs, to search for lost treasures. At age 6 she was already spending hours in her grand parents' attic digging into old stuff, and when she turned 10, she organized her first garage sale in her neighborhood. She is an avid reader (old books, even better) and loves to write about her finds at the flea market, and her favorite vintage venues.
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However, the review “Europe’s Best Summer Destinations 2014″ is specifically dedicated to the 20 selected towns that competed for the prestigious title of Best European Destination 2014. And Paris was unfortunately not part of the winning cities this year :( The 20 winning cities were elected by hundreds of major tourism offices in Europe and thousands of community managers of social networks and voters. But we hope it will be part of this ranking in 2015!

Judy

We just wasted hours this last Saturday looking for the Flea Market on Via Fiori Chiari in Milan, only to discover that for the last TWO YEARS it has been held on the 3rd Sunday, not Saturday. It is now almost entirely vintage clothes and jewelry. Some interesting old decorative items from India and Africa for the home, some old posters and ads, but mainly clothing, purses, jewelry.

Hi Judy, we’re sorry to hear about your misadventure and please accept our sincere apologies for our mistake. Thanks to your input, we’ve been able to update the schedule for the Via Fiori Chiari flea market in Milan. Also, for those interested, we’ve also added a link to the schedule of the Mercatone dell’Antiquariato del Naviglio Grande: http://www.navigliogrande.mi.it/eventi/

Sabrina Huang

Hi Sabrina, which city/cities are you planning to visit in January/February? In Europe, most weekend flea markets operate year round (they sometimes close the week between Christmas and New Year’s eve); so they should be running in January and February. Remember to check the opening days, as while some flea markets operate every weekend, others only operate twice a month or only once a month.

Sabrina Huang

Thank you for the responses. I am going to Milan and Venice from 1/21-2/2. I am interested in flea market, antique market, open farmer’s market or old furniture market, etc. I have two weekends (1/23-24, 30-31) so hopefully I will be lucky enough to go to one of the market.